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get_user_pages() must be called with mmap_sem held, currently it is not. In fact it is called under the user db_table->mutex. To fix this we can convert gup to use the fast alternative, and safely avoid taking mmap_sem, if possible. Furthermore this is safe wrt to the mutex as other callers that take the lock (unmap and alloc_db) are not called under mmap_sem (hence possible deadlock). Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.